1989 adverts
Goupil
January 1989
Golf Portable: Small by design - big in business
Goupil - or more properly Societé de Micro-informatique et Telecommunications (SMT) Goupil - was a French company that had been established in 1979 and which mostly produced compu...
Atari
January 1989
I think, therefore IBM won't get my PC order
Atari released its first IBM compatible - the £400 entry-level 8086 Atari PC - in June 1987, although it had been previewed at the Atari show held in London during April. Atari's...
Schneider
January 1989
Schneider Computers... Stand out from the crowd!
Alan Sugar sometimes claimed that Amstrad's early success was because it didn't try to crack the European or US market, a move which almost bankrupted Acorn. Eventually though th...
U-Micro
June 1989
The New Standard for Personal Scientific and Technical Visualisation Workstations
U-Microcomputers of Warrington in Cheshire, UK, had established itself as a supplier of Motorola 68000-based single- and multi-user systems aimed at the software developer market....
Commodore
June 1989
Europe's best-kept business secret - Now revealed in Britain
It's the beginning of the end for Commodore, as the company is now fully on the IBM-compatible gravy train, leaving behind its roots as the company which launched the world's firs...
Micronet
1st June 1989
At Micronet we're really talking
Launched at the beginning of 1983, Micronet was a Viewdata dial-up service created as a Prestel project of East Midland Allied Press, the publishing and printing group. Micronet...
Wells American
July 1989
CompuStar - it's number one
Wells American had started out as Intertec Data Systems, which had been famous in the late 1970s and early 1980s for its Superbrain twin-Z80-based all-in-one micro, which looked a...
Acorn
August 1989
The Archimedes A3000
The A3000 was an update of the original Archimedes - also known in at least some parts of the press as the ARM, or more simply the Arc - which had been launched in 1987 and which ...
Atari
November 1989
A pocket PC at a pocket-sized price
Sometimes considered as the very first true IBM-compatible portable, Atari's IBM-compatible pocket PC was originally known as the PocketPC, but it eventually christened the Portfo...
Tulip/Compudata
November 1989
Tulip sharpens your image
This is an advert from Tulip, formerly known as Compudata of the Netherlands, for its LT 286 laptop, based on Intel's CMOS 80C286 CPU plus the 80C287 maths co-processor. It was Tu...
Psion
November 1989
Psion MC400
Launched in 1989, the Psion MC 400 - for Mobile Computer - was Psion's first entry into the nascent "netbook" market. Although based on a CMOS version of Intel's 8086 - the 80C86 ...